After my first meeting about my thesis, I got the assignment to read a few papers (most of them from SIGGRAPH talks) about various topics in Non-Photorealistic Rendering. It was a good opportunity to put down the (otherwise excellent) Accelerated C++ and dive into the wonderful world of research papers.
The first one on the list was Suggestive Contours for Conveying Shape by Doug DeCarlo et al., from SIGGRAPH 2003.
